Books like The Foundation Pit

We always believe that the bright future is just around the corner and we wait for it to come……on the face of each young Pioneer girl there remained a trace of the difficulty, the feebleness of early life, meagerness of body and beauty of expression. But the happiness of childhood friendship, the realization of the future world in the play of youth and in the worthiness of their own severe freedom signified on the childish faces important gladness, replacing for them beauty and domestic plumpness.But the future seems not to be eager to arrive and we live in the distressing present and continue to wait…In the church burned many candles; the light of the silent, sad wax illuminated the entire interior of the building right up to the cupola above the hiding place of the sacred relics, and the cleanwashed faces of the saints stared out into the dead air with an expression of equanimity, like inhabitants of that other peaceful world—but the church was empty.And then everything seems to be left in the past… But everyone keeps waiting and growing old and then it is time to die…The Foundation Pit is an absolutely perspicacious allegory.Building of utopia always begins with an excavation of a pit but despite all the exertions and enthusiasm things never go any further…